Blog

The Thriving Cities Blog exists to investigate the deep structures and ideas that underpin the ways we view and understand our cities. Whereas most blogs trade in policy debates or current trends, our goal is to go deeper. We want to examine the underlying forces that affect the possibility and limits of our cities to thrive. We aim to explore the beliefs, institutional arrangements, and everyday habits that foster commitment and care in places that are often endogenously conflicted and complexly interwoven. We believe that exploring these topics online together will help us unearth the elusive capacities of our cities—both individual and collective—needed in shaping our communities for the better.